Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 275 284
Rank change year-on-year -7 +9 -86
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 481 549 731
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.74% 1.07% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 1.17% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 205 288 481
10th Percentile £41,475 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,233 £56,495 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £123,750 £96,250 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,797 46,952 64,547
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.00% 91.85% 88.53%
Number of salaries quoted 30,734 22,742 50,183
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £29,492
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,900 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 5 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 5 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +9 428 £75,000 +11.11% 214
London +80 244 £85,000 +6.25% 97
UK excluding London -73 176 £62,500 -3.85% 153
Work from Home +12 174 £75,000 +15.38% 182
South East -36 54 £57,500 -11.54% 60
North of England -12 43 £76,250 +8.93% 38
Midlands -30 35 £65,000 +4.00% 18
North West -11 24 £77,500 +6.90% 19
West Midlands -3 23 £57,500 -11.54% 14
Yorkshire -6 18 £62,500 +21.95% 13
East of England +26 17 £60,100 -17.10% 22
South West -26 14 £62,500 -3.29% 6
Northern Ireland -9 11 £75,000 +26.20%
East Midlands -38 10 £80,000 +33.33% 4
Wales +5 4 £61,001 +2.64% 4
Scotland -15 3 £42,000 -29.33% 11
North East -20 1 - - 6

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.74%) Confluence
2 3 (0.62%) CMS
2 3 (0.62%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.42%) CICS
3 2 (0.42%) MTS
4 1 (0.21%) Drupal
Applications
1 18 (3.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.62%) Trello
6 1 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (3.12%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.04%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.83%) Shopify
5 3 (0.62%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.21%) Magento
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 63 (13.10%) SaaS
2 55 (11.43%) AWS
3 47 (9.77%) Azure
4 24 (4.99%) Power Platform
5 19 (3.95%) Pulumi
6 17 (3.53%) GCP
7 15 (3.12%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (2.70%) GitHub
9 11 (2.29%) H2O.ai
9 11 (2.29%) OpenShift
10 10 (2.08%) GitHub Copilot
10 10 (2.08%) PaaS
11 6 (1.25%) Snowflake
12 4 (0.83%) Collibra
12 4 (0.83%) Google Analytics
12 4 (0.83%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
13 3 (0.62%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (0.62%) Serverless
14 2 (0.42%) Asana
14 2 (0.42%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 25 (5.20%) Broadband
2 10 (2.08%) HTTP
3 8 (1.66%) SD-WAN
4 6 (1.25%) RTP
4 6 (1.25%) WAN
4 6 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (1.25%) Wireless
5 5 (1.04%) LAN
6 4 (0.83%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.62%) Multicast
8 2 (0.42%) 5G
8 2 (0.42%) ATM
9 1 (0.21%) 4G
9 1 (0.21%) Bluetooth
9 1 (0.21%) GPRS
9 1 (0.21%) Intranet
9 1 (0.21%) LTE
9 1 (0.21%) Network Security
9 1 (0.21%) Value-Added Service
9 1 (0.21%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (6.03%) Relational Database
2 24 (4.99%) NoSQL
3 23 (4.78%) Power BI
3 23 (4.78%) RDBMS
4 18 (3.74%) Metadata
5 12 (2.49%) Data Lake
6 7 (1.46%) SQL Server
6 7 (1.46%) Tableau
7 6 (1.25%) SAP BW
8 5 (1.04%) Data Mining
9 4 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.62%) Big Data
10 3 (0.62%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.42%) DB2
12 1 (0.21%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 30 (6.24%) JIRA
2 19 (3.95%) Jaeger
3 4 (0.83%) ERwin
4 3 (0.62%) PowerDesigner
4 3 (0.62%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.21%) ER Studio
General
1 182 (37.84%) Finance
2 177 (36.80%) Social Skills
3 108 (22.45%) Marketing
4 97 (20.17%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (9.36%) Banking
6 42 (8.73%) Legal
7 41 (8.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 39 (8.11%) Financial Institution
9 36 (7.48%) Retail
10 26 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
11 23 (4.78%) Law
11 23 (4.78%) Manufacturing
12 22 (4.57%) Digital Economy
13 20 (4.16%) Public Sector
14 18 (3.74%) Presentation Skills
15 17 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
16 16 (3.33%) Electronics
17 11 (2.29%) Billing
17 11 (2.29%) Publishing
18 10 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 130 (27.03%) Product Manager
2 77 (16.01%) Lead
3 61 (12.68%) Senior
4 32 (6.65%) Senior Manager
5 26 (5.41%) Product Owner
6 24 (4.99%) Senior Product Manager
7 22 (4.57%) Product Lead
8 20 (4.16%) Product Management Director
9 19 (3.95%) Digital Product Manager
10 16 (3.33%) Change Manager
11 13 (2.70%) Developer
12 12 (2.49%) Data Manager
13 11 (2.29%) Development Engineer
13 11 (2.29%) Security Engineer
14 10 (2.08%) Senior Development Engineer
14 10 (2.08%) Senior Software Development Engineer
14 10 (2.08%) Senior Software Engineer
14 10 (2.08%) Software Development Engineer
14 10 (2.08%) Software Engineer
15 9 (1.87%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.95%) Elastic Stack
1 19 (3.95%) OpenTelemetry
2 16 (3.33%) REST
3 11 (2.29%) Keras
3 11 (2.29%) PyTorch
3 11 (2.29%) TensorFlow
4 10 (2.08%) YAML
5 6 (1.25%) .NET
6 4 (0.83%) FastAPI
6 4 (0.83%) Flask
6 4 (0.83%) Node.js
7 3 (0.62%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.62%) EDI
7 3 (0.62%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (0.62%) React
7 3 (0.62%) Vue
8 2 (0.42%) Next.js
8 2 (0.42%) PySpark
9 1 (0.21%) OpenAPI
9 1 (0.21%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 87 (18.09%) Product Ownership
2 51 (10.60%) Onboarding
3 39 (8.11%) Self-Motivation
4 27 (5.61%) Management Information System
5 14 (2.91%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.29%) Social Media
7 10 (2.08%) Public Cloud
7 10 (2.08%) Security Posture
8 9 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.66%) Cloud Native
10 7 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.46%) IoT
11 6 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (1.25%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 6 (1.25%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.04%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.04%) Data Fabric
12 5 (1.04%) Driving Licence
13 4 (0.83%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.57%) Linux
2 19 (3.95%) Unix
3 5 (1.04%) Windows
4 2 (0.42%) zOS
5 1 (0.21%) Android
5 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (51.77%) Roadmaps
2 199 (41.37%) Agile
3 137 (28.48%) Product Roadmap
4 105 (21.83%) Problem-Solving
4 105 (21.83%) Product Strategy
5 96 (19.96%) Continuous Improvement
5 96 (19.96%) Stakeholder Management
6 80 (16.63%) Information Security
6 80 (16.63%) Mentoring
7 78 (16.22%) AI
8 76 (15.80%) Analytics
9 72 (14.97%) User Experience
10 63 (13.10%) Decision-Making
11 61 (12.68%) Project Management
12 59 (12.27%) Product Vision
13 55 (11.43%) Business Development
14 53 (11.02%) Coaching
15 51 (10.60%) Computer Science
15 51 (10.60%) DevOps
16 50 (10.40%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 51 (10.60%) Python
2 36 (7.48%) Java
3 35 (7.28%) SQL
4 23 (4.78%) Go
5 21 (4.37%) JavaScript
6 19 (3.95%) Bash
7 10 (2.08%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.04%) C#
9 3 (0.62%) C++
10 2 (0.42%) COBOL
10 2 (0.42%) JCL
10 2 (0.42%) PHP
10 2 (0.42%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.21%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.21%) R
11 1 (0.21%) Scala
11 1 (0.21%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 104 (21.62%) Degree
2 47 (9.77%) Master's Degree
3 40 (8.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 35 (7.28%) Security Cleared
5 21 (4.37%) AWS Certification
5 21 (4.37%) SC Cleared
6 10 (2.08%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.87%) MBA
8 7 (1.46%) PMI Certification
8 7 (1.46%) PMP
9 5 (1.04%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.83%) SAP Certification
11 3 (0.62%) CSPO
11 3 (0.62%) HNC
12 2 (0.42%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.42%) CISM
12 2 (0.42%) CISSP
13 1 (0.21%) CFA
13 1 (0.21%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.24%) QA
2 19 (3.95%) Data Quality
3 16 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 16 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.29%) NCSC
4 11 (2.29%) NIST
5 6 (1.25%) GDPR
5 6 (1.25%) ISO 20022
6 5 (1.04%) IFRS
6 5 (1.04%) SLA
7 4 (0.83%) PMO
8 3 (0.62%) ISO 8583
8 3 (0.62%) SEPA
9 2 (0.42%) COREP
9 2 (0.42%) FINREP
9 2 (0.42%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.21%) GMP
10 1 (0.21%) PSD2
System Software
1 24 (4.99%) Docker
2 3 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.62%) vSphere
3 2 (0.42%) RACF
4 1 (0.21%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 24 (4.99%) Kubernetes
2 23 (4.78%) Terraform
3 19 (3.95%) Ansible
3 19 (3.95%) Argo
3 19 (3.95%) Kustomize
3 19 (3.95%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.21%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (8.11%) Microsoft
2 33 (6.86%) Google
3 19 (3.95%) Salesforce
4 15 (3.12%) Databricks
5 11 (2.29%) Dell
5 11 (2.29%) NVIDIA
5 11 (2.29%) SAP
6 9 (1.87%) Adobe
7 8 (1.66%) Oracle
8 7 (1.46%) Foundry
9 6 (1.25%) Zoho
10 4 (0.83%) Sage
10 4 (0.83%) YouTube
11 3 (0.62%) Apple
11 3 (0.62%) Bloomberg
11 3 (0.62%) CQG
11 3 (0.62%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (0.62%) Reuters
11 3 (0.62%) Tenable
11 3 (0.62%) Trayport